Posted by Neredbojias on 07/09/07 15:52

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:54:15
GMT dorayme scribed:

>> I was under the assumption you didn't want numbers to that puzzler
>> posted, but okay. 2000. Probably isn't optimal.
>
> What a nice round figure and neat where it is, 2 x 1000! No...
> you won't solve quickly, it takes some persistence and the real
> worth in all this is not the mere figure but the approach to it.
> How it must be reasoned with... (now I am reminded of a line in
> Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth is besides herself over
> Wickam's elopement with her 16 year old sister. He is a bit of a
> scoundrel and she blurts out to her sister Jane, "How is a man
> like that to be reasoned with?" The desert is like that, but
> there is a way, and a more honourable one than the way Wickham
> had to be dealt with.

So all that means exactly what with regard to my number?

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Neredbojias the idiosyncratic

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